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  1. Overview: United States Fifteenth Amendment
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  3. Committee:Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives
  4. Session: 1867-07-14 00:00:00
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United States Fifteenth Amendment

Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives

Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives for the Fortieth Session of Congress

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Session 8535: 1867-07-14 00:00:00

H. Res. 73 is referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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H. Res. 73

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Whereas the fourth section of the fourth article of the Constitution of the United States declares that “the United States shall guaranty to every State in this Union a republican form of government:” and whereas the duty thus enjoined is necessarily devolved upon the Congress of the United States, and carries with it the right to determine what is a republican form of government, which question, being a purely political one, belongs solely to the legislative department of the Government: Therefore,

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives. &c., as the deliberate judgment of this Congress. That the right to the elective franchise, unless forfeited by crime, is an absolutely necessary and fundamental principle of republican government, affording the true safeguard of the citizen against partial and unjust legislation, and essential to the national security and peace; and that the constitutions or laws of any States of this Union which deny to any of their citizens. being citizens of the United States, the right to vote on account of race or color, or which impose any conditions or qualifications for the exercise of the right not demanded of all other citizens, are repugnant to the form and spirit of republican government, at war with the Declaration of Independence, in violation of the Constitution of the United States, and ought to be so amended as to conform thereto.

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